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My intention is simply to record scenes from the life of an English family during two hundred years of English change and fortune, and beyond that to pay tribute to a part of England that I dearly love. The four books are seen together in my mind as a piece of gaily-tinted tapestry worked in English colours. Hugh Walpole Acknowledged as Walpoles finest work, The Herries Chronicle did for the Lake District what Hardy did for Wessex and Arnold Bennett for the Potteries. It has been compared, in its power and appeal, with Galsworthys Forsyth Saga and described by J.B. Priestley as a superb work of fiction with not one listless page. Rich and varied in its scope, with a crowded gallery of unforgettable men and women, it is glorious sweeping fiction, tracing the lives of successive Herries generations from the fiery, restless and dramatic world of the eighteenth century to the tragic disillusionment of the 1930s. At times it is dark, jagged and violent- at others glowing with excitement, passion and the fullness of life. Above everything it is a novel rich in love and the understanding of love, told with a mastery only equalled by its descriptions of the wild and beautiful scenery of th

Author

Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941

Publisher

London: Pan Books in association with Macmillan London

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330288521